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Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations 12th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference and Workshops, AIAI 2016 Thessaloniki, Greece, September 16–18, 2016 Proceedings 123 Editors Lazaros Iliadis Ilias Maglogiannis Democritus University of Thrace University of Piraeus Orestiada Piraeus Greece Greece ISSN 1868-4238 ISSN 1868-422X (electronic) IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ISBN 978-3-319-44943-2 ISBN 978-3-319-44944-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44944-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016948297 © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland Preface Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving and growing research area. During the last few decades it has expanded from a field of promise to one of actual delivery, with good practical application in almost every scientific domain. More specifically, during the last 5 years, AI algorithms have been applied more and more by Google in Facebook, by Microsoft (e.g., the CNTK that is an open source deep learning toolkit on GitHub) by Amazon, and by Baidu in China. The common core of all these recent research efforts is deep learning. Joaquin Candela, head of Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning group, stated: “We’re trying to build more than 1.5 billion AI agents, one for every person who uses Facebook or any of its products.” Facebook is using a machine-learning platform known as the FBLearner Flow. In fact, Facebook is already building AI that builds AI! Deep learning, deep neural networks, multi-agent systems and autonomous agents, image processing, biologically inspired neural net- works (spiking ANN) are already a reality. Deep neural networks are changing the Internet. The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the first historical World Computer Con- gress held in Paris in 1959. The First AIAI conference (Artificial Intelligence Appli- cations and Innovations) was organized in Toulouse, France in 2004 by the IFIP. Since then, it has always been technically supported by the Working Group 12.5 “Artificial Intelligence Applications.” After 12 years of continuous presence, it has become a well-known and recognized mature event, offering AI scientists from all over the globe the chance to present their research achievements and to cope with the AI research explosion that is taking place at a meteoric speed. The 12th AIAI was held in Thes- saloniki, Greece, during September 16–18, 2016. Following a long-standing tradition, this Springer volume belongs to the IFIP AICT series and it contains the accepted papers that were presented orally at the AIAI 2016 main conference and in the workshops that were held as parallel events. Three workshops were organized, by invitation to prominent and distinguished colleagues, namely: • The Third MT4BD2016 (Workshop on New Methods and Tools for Big Data), • The Fifth MHDW 2016 (Mining Humanistic Data Workshop), and • The First 5G-PINE (Workshop on 5G-Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge). It is interesting that two of these workshops have a continuous presence in the AIAI events, which means that they are well established in the AI community. All papers went through a peer-review process by at least two independent academic referees. Where needed, a third and a fourth referee were consulted to resolve any potential conflicts. For the 12th AIAI conference, 65 papers were submitted. Out of these submissions, 30 papers (46.15 %) were accepted for oral presentation as full VI Preface ones, whereas another eight papers (12.3 %) were accepted as short ones. The authors of the accepted papers of the main event come from 12 different countries around the globe, namely: Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, UK, Greece, India, Italy, Norway, Portugal, and USA. As the title of the conference denotes, there are two core orientations of interest, basic research AI approaches and also applications in real-world cases. The diverse nature of the papers presented demonstrates the vitality of AI computing methods and proves the wide range of AI applications as well. The accepted papers of the 12th AIAI conference are related to the following thematic topics: – Artificial Neural Networks – Genetic Algorithms – Classification – Hybrid Systems – Clustering – Image and Video Processing – Control Systems – Robotics – Medical AI Applications – Data Mining – Multi-Agent Systems – Engineering